Oralité et multilinguisme – Vincent Broqua (Université Paris 8) – Emilien Vergnaud-Pagès – LISTEN Seminar

An inter-university seminar, LISTEN brings together researchers in the humanities who study objects or practices involving sound or consider phenomena from an audile perspective: podcasts, audio books, radioliterature, performed poetry, slam, spoken word, sound arts, opera, audiovisual archives of literature, representation of sound and hearing in literature, soundscapes, paleophony… One of its aims is to devise methodological approaches for these objects which are made possible by the technologies of sound recording and reproduction and/or existing at the borders of literature, the performing arts, media studies and history of techniques and mentalities. Held in French or English, the seminar sessions are devoted to collective listening, sharing of methodologies and tools, scientific watch and the theoretical issues raised by sound objects and phenomena.